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Dark harvest grow challenge: RosettaStoned

RosettaStoned

RosettaStoned

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-1 Plants: committing to 3 DGTH and 3 GC

-2 Grow: Space: framed in room in basement, 13.5x6 veg room/storage/work room - 13.5x8 flower room

-3 Lights: seedlings - 2' fluorescent t8 and 125 watt CFL
veg stage - Most likely my remodeled vipar and mars which equal around 225 watts together. If i get my parts in time and assemble the new light, then I will use my two morsen remodels which equal about 395 watts together
flower stage - I have to have the light built by now. I will either; 1- Finish anything I have in there under the cobs and use the new light (2' samsung lm561c H series strips x 32, 3000k and 4000k mix, 400 watts, 64,000 luminous flux, two independent 4'x2' frames), 2- Build this thing and finish under it and use the 600 watts of cobs/70 watts of mono (660)red and far-red. The second sounds better but we will see....

-4 Medium: 2 17 gallon no till super soil/ started in peat plugs/ solo cups/ 1 gallon fabric pots

2 DWC 5 gallon buckets/6" net pots/rockwool and hydroton. started in rockwool plugs then to 3" blocks

**Bonus** 2 5 gallon fabric (hybrid) mix. Started in peat plugs/ solo cups/ 1 gallon fabric pots.

-5 Containers: described above- 2 17 gallon no till super soil containers, 2 5 gallon DWC buckets, **Bonus** 2 5 gallon fabric pots hybrid mix

-6 Nutes/Additives: DWC- Canna line= Rhizotonic, Cannazyme, Vega A+B, Flores A+B, PK 13/14, Cannaboost, Calimagic, Armor Si

Super soil mix- receipe is.....
Medium- 3 cubic ft sunshine mix #4 advanced with coco coir (7 5 gallon buckets)
1 1/2+ 5 gallon buckets each of purple cow compost and coast of Maine lobster compost- I ordered the CoM compost because i read about it
1 1/2 + 5 gallon buckets each of ewc, two kinds
2 +/- 5 gallon buckets of perlite, added a little vermiculite because I had it laying around.
(Part of this came from another forum and can't take credit for it)

Amendments...
Equal parts;
Blood meal- high N for growth
Bone meal- high N and P for flower and root structure
Bat guano- high N and microbes and enzymes
Iron tone- micro and macro nutrients
Garden lime- pH control and macro nutrients
Garden gypsum- pH control (helps lime move through soil and prevent compaction), root growth, micro and macro
Oyster shells (ground)- calcium, pH control
Green sand- takes forever to break down but good K source, mined from the sea (never used it before, from another forum)
Fish meal- excellent for microbial life, high N and P
Chicken manure pellets- slower release N, beneficial bacteria
Rock phosphate- for flower
Tomato tone- balanced fertilizer, high K
Garden tone- balanced fertilizer, higher K
Dr Earth garden fertilizer- same, for diversity also has mycorrhizae
Doubled these;
Alfalfa meal- good K source but adds beneficial microbes that help break down nutrients to readily available, triacontanol, more....
Kelp meal- adds aminos, carbs, vitamins, minerals, plant hormones, and much more....
Neem cake- well rounded source of macro but mainly for pests and disease
Azomite- rock dust for micro nutrients and trace minerals
Mega mend natural minerals- another trace mineral source
Bio-Char- Suppose to help with nutrient absorption and mirco biology, keeps soil loose

Will be using molasses, kelp and alfalfa meal teas/sprays, and top dressings of EWC/compost/amendments

**Bonus** I will use 45% coco coir, 20% my soil (used), 10% each EWC, compost, bio-char, perlite, amended with lime/ gypsum/ iron-tone/ azomite/ kelp meal/ alfalfa meal/ bio-char. The idea here is I want to be able to water once everyday or more, but have it be organic. I will use Roots Organic line. Grow, bloom, HPK, Trinity, and GO bio-root and calmag. I will probably use the sample of mammoth P I have for the added enzymes and bacteria, also.

-7 Experience: I am at just over one year of growing MJ. I have gardened and kept up my own landscaping for years now.

My grow philosophy right now is see what is like and grow for fun.

I grow because MJ is the shiznittlebam snip snap sack, nuff said.

I want to see how everyone's grows turns out with there method, medium, etc.

I think that' s it, whew.....
 
8-11-2018 12:17 pm

Just soaked the seeds since 12 am-ish central time. Got my plugs soaked and prepped and the neccessary tools.

Gorilla Cookies ☝️ Dark Ghost Train ☝️


sitting on the exhaust to the flower room with a seed mat. 125 watt CFL above in the ready. Will spray with un pH'd water daily, or more, when I see roots I may separate and spray the DWC with a rhizotonic spray and the rest with a very diluted alfalfa meal spray. Or just spray them all with the alfalfa meal.
 

last night, waiting on one dgth. Tap roots coming out of both rockwool plugs. Last dgth hull is broken open, should be poking out by lights on at 2 pm.
 
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At 6 PM
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All had long enough roots to see light, so.... first containers it is
 
All shooting for the stars......
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75 degrees 80% rh. Will spray dome with water before bed
forgot some details, soaked rockwool cubes in pH'd tap with rhizotonic 20 ml/gal 5.65 pH. The others just got filled loosely with their medium and the water will settle it all.
 
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Soaked 1/2 tsp of kelp and alfalfa/gallon last night. Added 1/4 tsp molasses today. Used four oz. Of solution and added 4 oz. of water. Watered soil and hybrid mix, about 2 oz. each.
The DWC GC has a tap root coming out the bottom of the block. Both (GC and DGTH) will put into buckets tomorrow with a mostly rhizotonic solution for a few days.

I also have second leaves
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DGTH ☝️ GC 👉
 
*calibrated meters and got my hydro shoes on*
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Placed DWC blocks in final containers tonight, 5 gallon buckets. 3.5 gallons tap, 1 ml silica, 2 ml calmag, 20 ml rhizotonic, 5 ml Vega A&B. 530 EC + 450 for the tap 5.95 pH. Air ports opened to half, water right at the bottom of the block. 1 4x2" air stone each, 120 L/ minute pump.
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watered soil and hybrid mix with kelp/alfalfa meal molasses tea again. 3/4 tsp of each meal 1/2 tsp molasses/ gallon. 4 oz + 6 oz water to dilute. Used 2 oz each.

DWC under vipar remodel 110 watts 27" from plants
soil and hybrid under Mars remodel 115 watts 24" from plants
 
DWC reservoirs were a little high @ 6.86 DGT and 6.92 GC. Brought them down to 6.2 ish. I blame this on not letting the silica, calmag, and pH'd solution sit overnight. DGT has roots in the water as of 6 PM, GC not far behind. They should take off in a day or two.

Top dressed soil with 1 tsp of my fertilizer mix and 1 tbsp EWC. 2-3 oz of water each. No run off

The hybrid mix got their first official feeding with run off. 1/4 tsp budda grow and bio root, 1/2 tsp trinity (humic acid) to 1/2 gallon. It's pH was 6.1 ish, 8 oz roughly with 1-2 oz run off. I thought that was a good place to start. Run off was pH 6.49, I should probably bring it down next feeding? Run off is new to me so there will be questions 😁 I looked a few hours after the complete soaking and no droop.
All of these gals need to catch up to chef. He must have started on the tenth 😂🤣😉😋
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Lol these look great. I was waiting for countdown and had my papertowels and seeds out by 12:05 am Pacific standard time 😉. They really took off well when I put the timer on and gave them some dark time.

With as much coco to soil ratio I would ph on the high side of the coco ph recommendations imo.
 
That's what I thinking, maybe 6 out would be good. So make my solution that much lower? So like 5.6 ish in
I ordered earth juice natural pH down crystals to use on everything. Maybe my Dwc res will stay more stable, maybe not.. who knows
 
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